When I first read this thread I had no familiarity with Genuine
Fractals.
But I downloaded the trial version and used it some.
It seems that their goal is to increase image resolution while
keeping file size small, or at least the same while allowing larger
size prints.
I was impressed with what the GF software could do. I wish it was a
little less expensive.
Hi Guys,
I downloaded a small image about 4x5" that I got by email of a
boxfront sample from the artist that designed this. RedCherries and
the wording Cherries in front of it.
The resolution was @ 96dpi.
After saving this in GF (and than close the file) I reopened it and
changed the file to 300 dpi with the same size as the previous size.
On screen, nothing looked different untill I enlarged the image to
400%.
To make things fair, I also upsampled the original tif in Photoshop.
The photoshop file had soft edges to the lettering as I had
expected but the GF file had a razor sharp edge!
GF finds edges in your photograph and rebuilds picture date based
on those findings. It is a fairly intelligent piece of software.
Photoshop does what it is meant to do, add pixels accoding to a
preset process without regard to differences in the data.
The Cherries did not look very different (except the stems) because
the edges of the cherries were soft to start with. Even GF cannot
build from lack of data.
It sure as hell does a better job than anything else on the market
and it lets you save your image in two compressions lossless or
visually lossless. It.s a tremendous space saving device. All my
images that are backed up, are backed up as GF files.
Invest some money in GF and it upgrades your camera to the next
best thing. (Untill we get the S2 and use that with GF)
Good Luck, Rinus
